I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.

Critics should find meaningful work.

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.

I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk a lot about publishing, bookselling, and book writing. He's been around for ten years longer than me and was a bestseller right off the bat. And he's seen and done everything. It's rare to be with somebody who has been through all of that.

There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.